Filmed during my OZCO  residency in NYC.

I met and  filmed Mark in 2010.
I saw him again when I got back to NYC in 2012 ; he didn’t look too good and he had lost a lot of weight due to his addiction to meth while living with HiV . We organised a filming session. Three weeks later I run into him in the street  and he presented some skin lesions on his face . I asked him to do a second filing session.
Dani Marti chose to film his friend performing one of his more positive passions: flagging – a routine commonly performed in gay clubs, which draws inspiration from Japanese fan dancing. Marti’s work explores intimately the meaning of/behind ‘surface’, and how, as we see in Butterfly Man, someone’s story can literally be written on their skin.

Sources: Dani Marti website https://danimarti.com; Carrie Miller, ‘Dani Marti: Mariposa’, Art Monthly Australia, November 2012.I filmed mark 2 years before.

Exhibited:

• Mariposa (Butterfly), Breenspace, Sydney 2012
• Blake Prize of Religious Art,  College of Fine Arts, Sydney  2013
• Fractions,  PINTA Art Fair, video exhibition curated by Octavio Zaya, New York, 2013
• Scanlines, DLux Media, @ Brenda May Gallery, Sydney  2013
• Your Nostalgia is Killing Me!, Gallery of Modern Art , Brisbane, Australia 2014
• 21, Casula Power House Museum, Casula,  NSW, Australia , 2015
• Chrysalis, UOW, Wollongong NSW , Australia , 2020
• UOW collection, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, 20123
• UOW’s 50 Anniversary, Wollongong, NSW, Australia , 2025

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